Artikel
Emanzipation als koloniale Fiktion : zur sozialen Position weißer Frauen in den deutschen Kolonien
Verfasst von:
Walgenbach, Katharina
in:
L' homme
2005
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Heft:
2
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47 - 67 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Walgenbach, Katharina |
| In: | L' homme |
| Jahr: | 2005 |
| Heft: | 2 |
| Sprache: | Deutsch |
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| The question addressed by this paper is whether die participation of White women in German colonialism was associated with emancipatory effects and motives. To start with, the testimonies of White women who were involved in the colonial project are investigated. The concepts of colonial housekeeping schools in Germany and articles published by the Women's League of the German Colonial Society (1907-1914) provide the empirical basis of the analysis which demonstrates that, despite their emancipatory rhetoric, the Women's League and the housekeeping schools adopted a conservative gender model. The membership of the Women League in the Federation of German Women's Association is also examined as well as the potential links between the discourses of the Women's League and the bourgeois Women's movement in Germany. Finally, the normative proposals of the Women's League with respect to the appropriate adoption of a White female identity in German colonies are oudined. The second part of the paper demonstrates that, in social, economic and legal terms, there was no significant change in the scope available to women for action and behaviour in the colonies as compared with life at home in the German Kaiserreich. Thus, the "elevated position" of German women, often glorified by the Women's League, can be only related to White privileges. Because the gender arrangement between White women and men was not modified in any way, this article refers to emancipation as a colonial fiction. | |
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